Oracle Cloud Platform Engineer (OCI)

Datamatics Technologies; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Datamatics Technologies is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer (OCI) with 3–6 years of hands-on experience to build, manage, automate, and support enterprise OCI infrastructure. The role emphasizes provisioning, security, monitoring, and migration tasks in Riyadh.

The candidate should have strong Terraform/Ansible experience, scripting skills, and familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and OCI DevOps. Saudi Arabia-based on-site role in Riyadh region.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• 3–6 years hands-on cloud/platform engineering experience.
• Minimum 2 years of OCI experience or strong OCI exposure.
• Experience supporting production environments, incident management, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Provision and configure OCI resources including Compute, Storage, VCN, Load Balancer, DBCS, and Autonomous Database.
• Implement and manage OCI networking components such as VCNs, subnets, NSGs, route tables, gateways, VPNs, FastConnect, and DNS.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code modules (Terraform / OCI Resource Manager).
• Automate operational tasks using Python, Bash, Ansible, and cloud-native tools.
• Support CI/CD deployments using OCI DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Monitor cloud environments using OCI Monitoring, Logging, APM, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or Dynatrace.
• Perform routine operations including patching, backups, certificate renewals, capacity checks, and incident resolution.
• Implement cloud security controls including IAM policies, MFA, Vault/KMS, encryption, Bastion, Cloud Guard, Security Zones, and Vulnerability Scanning.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives to OCI.
• Assist application teams deploying workloads on OKE, WebLogic, Oracle DB, Functions, and API Gateway.
• Contribute to cost optimization, automation, and operational documentation.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Cross-functional teamwork

Ownership

Continuous learning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field

Tools

OCI

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

OCI DevOps

OCIR

Functions

API Gateway

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

We are looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer (OCI) with 3 – 6 years of experience to build, manage, automate, and support enterprise cloud infrastructure environments. The role focuses primarily on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and involves provisioning, operations, automation, security, monitoring, and migration activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision and configure OCI resources including Compute, Storage, VCN, Load Balancer, DBCS, and Autonomous Database.

• Implement and manage OCI networking components such as VCNs, subnets, NSGs, route tables, gateways, VPNs, FastConnect, and DNS.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / OCI Resource Manager) modules.

• Automate operational tasks using Python, Bash, Ansible, and cloud-native tools.

• Support CI/CD deployments using OCI DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.

• Monitor cloud environments using OCI Monitoring, Logging, APM, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or Dynatrace.

• Perform routine operations including patching, backups, certificate renewals, capacity checks, and incident resolution.

• Implement cloud security controls including IAM policies, MFA, Vault/KMS, encryption, Bastion, Cloud Guard, Security Zones, and Vulnerability Scanning.

• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives to OCI.

• Assist application teams deploying workloads on OKE, WebLogic, Oracle DB, Functions, and API Gateway.

• Contribute to cost optimization, automation, and operational documentation.
  

Required Technical Skills

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• OCI Compute, Block/Object/FSS Storage
• VCN, NSGs, Route Tables, Gateways, DRG, Peering
• Load Balancer, WAF, FastConnect, IPSec VPN
• OCI IAM, Compartments, Policies, Federation
• OCI Vault, Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Data Safe
• Autonomous Database, DBCS, Exadata (operational awareness)
• OKE (Oracle Kubernetes Engine)
• OCI DevOps, OCIR, Functions, API Gateway
• OCI Monitoring, Logging, APM, Operations Insights

DevOps & Automation

• Terraform (modules, workspaces, remote state)
• Ansible
• Docker & Kubernetes
• Helm
• Git & GitOps

CI/CD

• OCI DevOps
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI
• Azure DevOps

Scripting

• Python
• Bash
• PowerShell (basic awareness acceptable)

Secondary Cloud (Preferred)

• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field
• 3–6 years of hands‑on cloud/platform engineering experience
• Minimum 2 years of OCI experience (or strong cloud experience with demonstrable OCI exposure)
• Experience supporting production environments, incident management, and change management

Certifications Required

At least one OCI Associate certification

• OCI Foundations Associate (1Z0-1085)
• OCI Architect Associate (1Z0-1072) or OCI Operations Associate (1Z0-1067)

Preferred

Additional certifications

• OCI Architect Professional
• AWS SAA / Azure AZ-104 / GCP ACE
• Terraform Associate
• CKA
• RHCSA / Oracle Linux Certification

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams.
• Ownership, accountability, and service-oriented mindset.
• Continuous learning attitude.